Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

The Creation of Man

Because of the Fall, when we die, our spirits will sepa rate from our bodies, and we will go to be with God in hea ven. Again, it was never God‘s intention that man would work in heaven. Even though in our spiritual growth and development we will learn to have dominion over spiritual as well as physical things (see 1 Corinthians 6:3), God gave man the earth to rule. Since God‘s purposes never change, He made provision in His plan of redemption for man to ful fill that purpose. God made us a promise. He said that when we come to the head office (heaven), we will stay there only for a while. There will come a Day when our bodies will be resurrected and rejoined with our spirits, so that He can send us back to finish the job. (See 1 Corinthians 15:42 – 44, 52 – 53; Isaiah 65:17.) If you are finding it hard to take all this in, read the book of Revelation. God keeps on talking about thrones, reigning with Him, and ruling with Him. The reason we will reign is that Jesus came to bring righteous judgment back to the earth. He came to bring it back to where it was supposed to be in the first place. That has always been God‘s purpose for man. God made you a manager, and He always fulfills His eternal purposes. He isn‘t going to raise you from t he dead just to live with Him forever. He‘s going to raise you from the dead so that you can get on with your work. That‘s why the Scri p ture says that when Jesus returns to earth and we are re surrected, we will reign with Him (Rev. 5:10.) Reign means what? To have dominion, to administrate. Therefore, God created man so that He could have someone to love, someone who would work with Him in His purposes for the earth. Yet the earth is a physical entity, and man is spirit. The earth needed someone with a physi cal body to live in it and take care of it. God knew this would be necessary, and that is a primary reason He created the male and the female. Created Male and Female

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